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aptitude is a front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). It displays a list of software packages and allows the user to interactively pick packages to install or remove. In addition to a curses based interface, it also has a command line interface.

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04. When I run any command like sudo apt-get update, I get following error message:
E: Type 'l.com/ubuntu' is not known on line 45 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list E: The list ...

I need to install pure-ftpd from source and need to do apt-get source pure-ftpd but I get this message:
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
I found some documentation about this ...

Is there an easy way to install packages with a large dependency tree, provided that you don't have superuser access? For instance, say I wanted to install firefox. Firefox has a ton of dependencies, ...

I have a freshly installed Ubuntu Karmic 32 bits installed in an old machine (Pentium 4 512 Mb RAM) and I'm having a severe problem with apt-get. No matter what repository I choose, I can't update the ...

Just istalled the latest debian with a graphical desktop environment and for some reason i cant install any thing.
for example
apt-get install subversion - cannot be found.
apt-get install synaptic ...

I've been around this APT pinning process a couple of times and I still can't get it to do what I want.
Currently I am running Ubuntu Karmic. I have no default release set, so Karmic is defaulting to ...

To make it more concrete, what's the relationship among apt-get, apt-file, apt-cache, aptitude and dpkg? I know that aptitude is the friendly front end to dpkg - so is apt-get, but less friendly. So ...

I have been using my Debian install for a while and I kept dist-upgrading because I didn't want to reinstall everything after every new Release. But now I'm starting to get a few errors at the reboot ...

I keep hearing about new versions of Ubuntu with their own Live CD and what not...
If I just run Update Manager on my existing installation of Ubuntu, is that getting me all the new goodness, or just ...

I'm using my laptop in different offices, and whenever I switch locations I have to re-set the http proxy for wget, firefox, apt, etc...
Is there a way to do this automatically based on the local IP ...

(This question is very similar to 10458. It was suggested that Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian are different enough to warrant different answers.)
As I use any Ubuntu setup I gradually install a number of ...